Stephen Kettle | |
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 Kettle with his sculpture of Sir Donald Gosling and Sir Ronald Hobson, founders of NCP car parks | |
| Born | 12 July 1966  (age 57)Castle Bromwich |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
Stephen Kettle (born 12 July 1966 in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England) is a British sculptor who works exclusively with slate. [1] [2]
Kettle is a self-taught sculptor with no formal training. [2] His best known works include a statue of the Supermarine Spitfire's designer R. J. Mitchell, commissioned for the Science Museum in London, [4] which was the first statue of its type in the world,[ citation needed ] and a life-size statue of Alan Turing, the founder of computer science and Enigma codebreaker, [5] commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney Frank for Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. [3]
Besides the statues of Turing and Mitchell, other notable works by Kettle include portrait busts of the following:
Kettle lives with his wife and three children in west London. [6]
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